On Nov 29, 2011, Marion Hakanson wrote:

> "OI" could stand for "OpenIllumos"?

As opposed to ClosedIllumos aka NexentaStor 4? I've never thought
tacking "open" on to anything made much sense due to various conflicts
over what that really means. I've seen several open source projects
survive name changes (e.g. Mozilla Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox) but
rarely has it made sense to let the community at large decide the
branding and name. On the other hand, I've seen a case or two where a
few rounds of voting turned out somewhat useable project name (e.g.
u-lite before the main dev join lububtu). But there will certainly
need to be trademark searches in proper categories in order not to
infringe on existing marques.

I think most of this is peripheral, however, to the desire to prevent
further fragmentation of an already small ecosystem. For what it's
worth, I've a few years of WordPress admin experience if any existing
or future projects would like an easy to manage CMS. So please contact
me off list if you'd like to discuss how I might contribute some time
to such an endeavor.

In the mean time, please keep the communications flowing as we all
appreciate everyone's hard work and willingness to forge ahead despite
the daunting tasks which lie ahead.

As an aside, can anyone share some insight in to why the IPS wheel was
reinvented as opposed to choosing an existing known package manager in
the first place?

-Gary


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